Puppet Contract Job Trends in the South East

Puppet
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Puppet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 153 179
Rank change year-on-year -27 +26 +16
Contract jobs citing Puppet 12 16 31
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.27% 0.43% 0.62%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.92% 3.22% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 26
10th Percentile £467 £384 £506
25th Percentile £505 £416 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £495 £563
Median % change year-on-year +19.19% -12.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £743 £566 £620
90th Percentile £765 £629 £688
England median daily rate £525 £565 £563
% change year-on-year -7.08% +0.44% -6.25%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

Puppet falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 626 497 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.33% 13.24% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 368 472
10th Percentile £255 £260 £205
25th Percentile £387 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £569 £608 £615
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
England median daily rate £512 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -4.32% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 5 33
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.19 £24.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £19.97 £30.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -29.75% +14.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £36.75 £68.63
90th Percentile £85.40 £37.50 £76.53
England median hourly rate £47.50 £30.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +55.74% -33.95% +31.94%

Puppet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Puppet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Puppet job vacancy trend in the South East

Puppet
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Puppet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Puppet

Puppet
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Puppet in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Puppet in the South East

Puppet
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Puppet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Puppet

Puppet
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Puppet within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire -10 9 £688 +20.61%
Surrey +1 1 - - 2
Berkshire -16 1 £475 +18.75% 5
Thames Valley -21 1 £475 -3.80% 5
Puppet
England

Puppet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon ECS
3 5 (41.67%) Azure
3 5 (41.67%) GCP
4 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (25.00%) Serverless
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (16.67%) IaaS
7 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
7 1 (8.33%) Datadog
7 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (8.33%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
1 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (8.33%) HTTP
3 1 (8.33%) Internet
3 1 (8.33%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (8.33%) MySQL
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (8.33%) Mocha
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) Fastify
2 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
2 1 (8.33%) gRPC
2 1 (8.33%) Jest
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
2 1 (8.33%) Loki
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
2 1 (8.33%) OpenID
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Swagger
2 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (16.67%) CentOS
2 2 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Containerisation
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) Configuration Management
3 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (58.33%) DevOps
5 6 (50.00%) Agile
5 6 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (33.33%) Microservices
7 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (25.00%) High Availability
7 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
8 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 2 (16.67%) Incident Management
8 2 (16.67%) Network Management
8 2 (16.67%) Security Management
8 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 7 (58.33%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (8.33%) Rust
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Degree
3 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (16.67%) RHCE
4 2 (16.67%) RHCSA
5 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Docker
2 2 (16.67%) KVM
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
2 10 (83.33%) Terraform
3 8 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 7 (58.33%) Grafana
5 5 (41.67%) Progress Chef
6 4 (33.33%) Prometheus
7 2 (16.67%) Podman
8 1 (8.33%) Argo
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) PagerDuty
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Tenable